Yang is a longtime civil rights and employment lawyer. She was a partner at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, and was a senior trial attorney with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section from 1998 to 2003.

The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Yang said it was a ‘‘tremendous privilege and responsibility’’ to lead EEOC’s efforts at enforcing anti-discrimination laws and championing equal employment opportunity in workplaces across America.

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